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Acting is hard work. At times, it’s very energizing and enervating.

Al Pacino

Really, I didn’t know my dad very well. He and my mother split up after the war. I was raised by my maternal grandmother and grandfather, and by my mother.
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The physical stamina [in Revolution]. I was just shocked by it. I didn’t think I had it in me ever, and I wasn’t terribly young when I did it. I was in my early forties.
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Learning (Shakespeare’s plays) …in school was a bit of a bore.
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I understand the directors much more. I was always rebelling against them when I was a youngster, I didn’t want to be told what to do. I had no identification.
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I was watching Revolution, and the things I did in that picture, holy smokes! I can’t believe I did that, it’s like another person. It’s the thought of it, it’s just appalling to me.
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Love goes through different stages. But it endures.
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I’m not a violent person, never was, but I have this temperament that I’ve always displayed.
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If I find something and feel as though I can contribute to [it] in a way and feel I’m in it, whatever that means.
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It was her way of getting out, and she would take me with her. I’d go home and act all the parts.
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Sometimes they are the same exact thing.
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When [Julia Marie Pacino] was 5 or 6 years old, we were in an Italian restaurant, and these people came by the table and they would start talking to me, asking me for my autograph and she just went under the table.
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All due respect, and trying to be as modest as I can be: I am a dancer.
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The story of Salome, the play itself and what it is, what it contains, and my journey as an actor, as a director, as a filmmaker, as a person struggling with whatever I’m struggling with.
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The play is the source, it is orchestrated with words. In a movie, you are not dealing with as much as that. There are machines and wires.
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It used to worry me what people said about me. I’m learning not to worry as much.
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I do believe, and I will always believe, that Shakespeare on film is really something that should be tried more often because it is an opportunity to take the humanity that Shakespeare writes into characters and express it.
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